Republican pro-Israel group goes on air against Obama

6/14/12 10:15 AM EDT

The hawkish, pro-Israel GOP group Emergency Committee for Israel is going on air with a new issue ad pressuring President Obama to act on Iran.

The ad accuses the Obama administration of too much negotiating in the face of continued Iranian intransigence over its nuclear program.

"President Obama has spent four years talking. Iran has spent four years building," the ad's narrator says. "Talking isn't working. It's time to act before it's too late."

The Obama administration has said repeatedly that it is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but that there was still time for negotiation. And it was reported recently that the U.S. and Israel were responsible for a computer worm aimed at sabotaging Iranian nuclear centrifuges.

As reported by BuzzFeed, the ad will air in the New York and Washington D.C. markets beginning Thursday.

UPDATE: The National Jewish Democratic Council calls the attack partisan: "The latest attack by the so-called Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) -- a Republican front group that has been condemned by vaunted American Jewish communal organizations -- has nothing to do with Iran, or Israel. It has to do with one thing: electing Republicans and defeating President Barack Obama."

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